Phoneme Chart: English Vowel and Consonant Sounds
showing the decimal HTML codes to make the English phonemes
for teachers, students and programmers who want to show phonetic script on web pages.

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20 Vowel Phonemes

24 Consonant Phonemes

/ ɪ /

pit

/ p /

 pit

/ e /

pet

/ b /

 bit

/ æ /

pat

/ t /

 time

/ ɒ /

pot

/ d /

 door

/ ʌ /

luck

/ k /

 cat

/ ʊ /

good

/ g /

 get

/ ə /

ago

/ f /

 fan

/ i: /

meat

/ v /

 van

/ ɑ: /

car

/ θ /

think

/ ɔ: /

door

/ ð /

that

/ ɜ: /

girl

/ s /

 send

/ u: /

too

/ z /

 zip

/ eɪ /

day

/ m /

 man

/ aɪ /

sky

/ n /

 nice

/ ɔɪ /

boy

/ ŋ /

ring

/ ɪə /

beer

/ l /

leg

/ eə /

bear

/ r /

rat

/ ʊə /

tour

/ w /

 wet

/ əʊ /

go

/ h /

 hat

/ aʊ /

cow

/ j /

yet

/ ʃ /

 shop

/ ʒ /

leisure

/ ʧ /

 chop

/ ʤ /

jump


For a complete list of codes for symbols in the International Phonetic Alphabet including diacritics and suprasegmentals, visit www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/wells/ipa-unicode.


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